Holder for fly-paper



No. 6|7,243. Patented Jan. 3, I899.

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HOLDER FDR FLY PAPER.

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CHARLES F. FERNALD AND FRANK J. KARTEN, OF SANTA PAULA, CALIFORNIA.

HOLDER FOR FLY-PAPIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,243, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed July 13,1898. Serial No. 685,821. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES F. FERNALD and FRANK J. KARTEN, residing at Santa Paula, in the county of Ventura and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holders for Fly-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improved holder for flypaper; and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved holder as in use. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the holder, the top plate being detached; and Fig. 3 is a detail View illustrating the handle or hangerloop and its connection with the standard.

The purpose of the device is to furnish a holder which may be used for fly-paper in such manner as to support the paper when in use and permit it to be conveniently moved from place to place and put in any position or suspended from any point, as may be desired. As shown, the holder consists of a base-plate A, a top plate 13, a connection or standard C, and the handle or hanger D. The base-plate A is provided with the projecting lugs A, arranged in pairs in circular series, the lugs of each pair being arranged to receive between them the edge of the fly-paper, and thus form a seat for the same in the use of the device. These lugs are preferably formed from a small plate of metal slitted and bent up to produce the lugs. The base-plate A is also provided with an upwardly-projecting rim A which operates to catch any drip from the paper, which latter may be washed off with warm water. The connection is in the form of a tubular standard fixed to the center of the base-plate and projecting upwardly there from, as shown, the standard being open at its upper end to receive the handle D, which is formed of spring-wire bent between its ends, so that such ends may be slipped down in the upper open end of the standard, and having at its extremities lateral points D, which spring out in openings C in the standard. The top plate 13 has a central opening B to fit over the standard 0 and has arms B which are slitted and downwardly bent to form the keepers 13 for the upper edge of the paper.

This top plate may be slipped up or down on the standard to suit the width of paper being employed.

In use the top plate may be lifted oifthe standard and the fiy-paper be bent into the form of a tube and secured at its edges by pinning or otherwise, its lower edge being engaged in the seats of the base-plate, and the top plate may be applied to hold the upper edge of the paper. In such use the holder may be suspended by a string or wire from the ceiling, or it may be placed in any other position desired.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A holder for fiy-paper comprising the base-plate, the top plate, such base and top plates being provided with means for holding the paper and the connecting device substantially as set forth.

2. A holder for fly-paper comprising the base-plate, provided with seats for the paper and with an upwardly-extended flange, the top plate and the standard connecting such plates substantially as set forth.

3. Aholder for fiy-paper comprising abaseplate, the standard thereon and the top plate slidable upon such standard combined with the fiy-paper held between said plates substantially as set forth.

4:. A holder for fiy-paper comprising the baseplate, the tubular standard thereon, the top plate sliding on said standard and the spring handle or hanger sprung into engagement with the tubular standard substantially as described.

5. The herein-described holder for fly-paper comprising the base-plate provided with the upwardly-projected flange and with the circular series of lugs arranged in pairs forming a seat for the lower edge of the paper, the top plate provided with arms slitted forming projections to engage the upper edge of the paper, and the standard and handle or hanger substantially as described.

CHARLES F. FERNALD. FRANK J. KARTEN.

lVitnesses:

JOHN KELLEY, F. H. CARR. 

